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Patients know in a heartbeat if they’re getting a clumsy exam.

Abraham Verghese

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Sometimes this wound occurs at the moment of birth, sometimes it happens later. We are all fixing what is broken.
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My intent wasn’t to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information.
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You live it forward, but understand it backward.
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My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.
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What treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?
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We must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.
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Still, it’s an apt metaphor for our profession. But there’s another kind of hole, and that is the wound that divides family.
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…guilt leads to righteous action, but rarely is it the right action.
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The Country Doctor Revisited captures the trials and tribulations of medicine, but also the satisfaction and the extraordinary rewards that come to those who embrace such a practice.
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We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot.
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A rich man’s faults are covered with money, but a surgeon’s faults are covered with earth.
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Tell us please, what treatment in an emergency is administered by ear?”….I met his gaze and I did not blink. “Words of comfort,” I said to my father.
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Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
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To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.
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And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.
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